Archive for July, 2014

I have started a project in collaboration with a poet, James Roberts. We have been on walks around the Ewyas Valley in the Black Mountains, through different landscapes recording our immediate impressions – me through sketching, writing and painting, James through writing and making short films. I have been experimenting with making my own paper to use for sketching/painting using recycled paper and plant material. The results so far have been interesting! I’ve tried embossing and will try laminating objects or words between two sheets of paper. I like the fragile, fragmented quality of the paper as if they’ve been lost and found and are maybe a part of a bigger image.

In March 2014 I showed with artist Vera Boele Keimer at the Jamaica Street Studios in Bristol. We want to find other venues in the future, but this was a chance to see how our work fits together. Vera exhibited some sculptural pieces and prints, and I showed some works on paper, card and small canvases. We called it ‘Place’ as Vera has started making work in response to the place where it is shown, and my work is very much about a specific place in the landscape. We mixed our work up and placed it in unusual positions to make it very different from a conventional hang in a gallery. I was pleased with how our work, though very different, was sympathetic to each other and sparked up an interesting dialogue with colour and mark-making. The show was well received by Jamaica Street Studio artists and other invited guests.